Making a Nation: The United States and Its People, Volume II

by Boydston, Jeanne; Cullather, Nick; Lewis, Jan; McGerr, Michael; Oakes, James

• ISBN13: 9780130339966
• ISBN10: 0130339962
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Taking political economy as its organizing theme,Making A Nation offers an intellectual focus to history that is sensitive to the recent innovations in women's history and environmental history. The book focuses on the relationships that shape and define human identity--cultural, diplomatic, race, gender, class and sectional relations-- and recognizes the importance of such traditional fields as politics and diplomacy. The reference synthesizes the literature in such as way as to allow readers to see the links between the particular and the general, between large and seemingly abstract forces such as globalization and political struggle and the daily struggles of ordinary men and women. Volume II covers U.S. history, including the second World War, the Cold War, the consumer society, the rise and fall of the new liberalism, living with less, the triumph of a new conservatism, and a new America. For historians and others interested in a comprehensive overview of the relationships that shape and define U.S. history.

Table of Contents

Reconstructing a Nation, 1865-1877	448	(32)
The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism, 1850-1890	480	(32)
Cultural Struggles of Industrial America, 1850-1895	512	(28)
The Politics of Industrial Society, 1870-1892	540	(26)
Industry and Empire, 1890-1900	566	(30)
A United Body of Action, 1900-1916	596	(30)
A Global Power, 1914-1919	626	(30)
The 1920s	656	(26)
A Great Depression and a New Deal, 1929-1940	682	(28)
The Second World War, 1941-1945	710	(32)
The Cold War, 1945-1952	742	(28)
The Consumer Society, 1950-1960	770	(30)
The Rise and Fall of the New Liberalism, 1960-1968	800	(43)
Living With Less, 1968-1980	843	(21)
The Triumph of a New Conservatism, 1980-1988	864	(32)
A New America? 1989-	896